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The new growth over Winter always amazes me....
All the reddish is 'new'.
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Good Evening All!
OK, so it's been a while again. Thank you for the notes, yes I am alive!
A while back I had mentioned that one of Casey's fellow patients (TP/AIT) had simply disappeared. We had met McRick at the hotel upon our arrival to Minneapolis. He had his surgery 2 days before Casey- I'd spoken to him once after his surgery- on Unit 6B, then he was just gone.
I hadn't heard anything from him.
I had lost his mothers email address, and so always included her in my prayers for him too.
Coming online late this afternoon, I had an email from him. OMG! I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw who it was from. He is still waiting to go home, but should be released tomorrow after his doctor appointment!
Say "YAY!"
...And then add a HUGE sigh of relief too.
Casey had a dentist appointment today. I spoke with her as she was going in, and haven't heard anything since. Imagine she could be quite sore as they were to fix a cracked (off) tooth. Ouchy.
From The Old Farmers Almanac come these words:
"Still come the flakes of white,
Like blossoms pure and light."
–J. Hazard Hartzell (1830–90)
I don't know who this Hartzell person was, but it's clear to me that they didn't have a forecast that calls for 6-10" of snow on Thursday.
ugh
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I really thought we had enough after last week..
Those snowstorms "hid" my front porch steps once again.
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hehehe
I do love Maxine!
I actually have to get some washer fluid (soon).
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Punk and I spend time outside for now though- - She runs and runs, chasing that little squeak ball of Milly's.
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And when I do not pay close enough attention, she "hides" her ball.
Burying it in the snowbanks and then "finding" it.
Fun(ny) to watch!
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By the end of the day she is completely pooped out!.
As am I.
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Yesterday started out kind of chilly- About 5 degrees. Kelli had asked if I would run down and take the blankets off the horses around noon.
I'd spoken to Casey in the meanwhile, and she was itching to get over there herself.
A few minutes after noon, my phone rang...
It was Casey.
The blanket was off Miss Breezie, but Miss May was not cooperating in the least. (It has been a while since Casey has been around the horses lots, so Miss May wasn't having anything to do with her).
I went down there then.
May wanted to play "keep away" from me too, so I grabbed her ball and banged on it a few times.
She came running then!
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But still didn't want to let me take her blanket off.
I told her "fine, just keep it on," and turned toward the gate.
She immediately came to me, and was quickly disrobed.
I really don't think she had "disremembered" Casey;
She was just having too much fun playing with us!
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Casey with Miss Breeze..
Miss May on the left.
Casey has a dead animal on her head.
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And it wasn't long at all before Miss May was loving Casey...
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And Casey loving every bit of it too!.
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I'd better close for tonight and get my jammies on before the news.
Hope all is well in your own little corners!
Love to all!
XOXO
Me
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Oh, and for those of you that might not have been around a year ago, you may not know that "DISREMEMBER" is actually a word...
Now this, from my previous entry of it.
disremember • \dis-rih-MEM-ber\ • verb: means to forget
Example sentence:
"'It was the British who did it,' I said quickly. 'I disremember the place and time....'" (E.L. Doctorow, Loon Lake)
Did you know?
English has been depending upon the word "forget" since before the 12th century, but in 1805 a new rival appeared in print -- "disremember."
A critic in 1869 called "disremember" both "obsolete" and "a low vulgarism," and later grammarians have agreed; it has been labeled "provincial and archaic."
In 1970 Harry Shaw opined that "disremember" was "an illiteracy," adding, "never use this word in standard English." (By 1975, Shaw amended his opinion to "this word is dialectal rather than illiterate.")
"Forget" is indeed a vastly more popular word, but "disremember" still turns up occasionally, often in dialectal or humorous contexts.
Anna~Anna
"Flintville Annie"
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Spit On A Mitten...
Pancreas - Abstract: Volume 38(2) March 2009 p 122-125 Severe Acute Pancreatitis: Overall and Early Versus Late Mortality in Intensive Care Units.
http://www.pancreasjournal.com/pt/re/pancreas/abstract.00006676-200903000-00003.htm;jsessionid=Jj3BN1zc3q86bqzynjYNl7Wqnlh9ZVfpJcFpsZWfJSRVTvS315Tj!-858031623!181195628!8091!-1
Pancreas:Volume 38(2)March 2009pp 122-125
Severe Acute Pancreatitis: Overall and Early Versus Late Mortality in Intensive Care Units
Abstract
Objectives: To determine overall mortality and timing of death in patients with severe acute pancreatitis and factors affecting mortality.
Methods: This was a retrospective, observational study of 110 patients admitted to a general intensive care unit (ICU) from January 2003 to January 2006.
Results: The overall mortality rate was 53.6% (59/110); 25.4% (n = 15) of deaths were early (≤14 days after ICU admission). There were no significant differences in age, sex, or surgical/medical treatment between survivors and nonsurvivors. Median Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II score was higher among nonsurvivors than survivors (score = 26 vs 19, respectively; P < 0.001), and the duration of hospitalization before ICU admission was significantly longer (4 vs 1 day; P < 0.001). Among the 59 patients who died, those in the early-mortality group were admitted to the ICU significantly earlier than those in the late-mortality group (3 vs 6.5 days; P < 0.05).
Conclusions: Overall mortality and median APACHE II score were high. Death predominantly occurred late and was unaffected by patient age, length of stay in the ICU, or surgical/medical treatment. An APACHE II cutoff of 24.5 and pre-ICU admission time of 2.5 days were sensitive predictors of fatal outcome.
© 2009 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.
[Original Articles]
Bumbasirevic, Vesna MD, PhD*; Radenkovic, Dejan MD, PhD*; Jankovic, Zorica MD, PhD†; Karamarkovic, Aleksandar MD, PhD*; Jovanovic, Bojan MD*; Milic, Natasa MD, PhD‡; Palibrk, Ivan MD, PhD*; Ivancevic, Nenad MD, PhD*
From the *Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia; †St James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK; and‡Institute for Medical Statistics and Informatics, Belgrade University School of Medicine, Belgrade, Serbia.
Received for publication September 8, 2007; accepted June 25, 2008.
Reprints: Zorica Jankovic, MD, PhD, St James's University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds, LS9 7TF, UK (e-mail: Zorica.Jankovic@leedsth.nhs.uk).
Pancreas:Volume 38(2)March 2009pp 122-125
Severe Acute Pancreatitis: Overall and Early Versus Late Mortality in Intensive Care Units
Abstract
Objectives: To determine overall mortality and timing of death in patients with severe acute pancreatitis and factors affecting mortality.
Methods: This was a retrospective, observational study of 110 patients admitted to a general intensive care unit (ICU) from January 2003 to January 2006.
Results: The overall mortality rate was 53.6% (59/110); 25.4% (n = 15) of deaths were early (≤14 days after ICU admission). There were no significant differences in age, sex, or surgical/medical treatment between survivors and nonsurvivors. Median Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II score was higher among nonsurvivors than survivors (score = 26 vs 19, respectively; P < 0.001), and the duration of hospitalization before ICU admission was significantly longer (4 vs 1 day; P < 0.001). Among the 59 patients who died, those in the early-mortality group were admitted to the ICU significantly earlier than those in the late-mortality group (3 vs 6.5 days; P < 0.05).
Conclusions: Overall mortality and median APACHE II score were high. Death predominantly occurred late and was unaffected by patient age, length of stay in the ICU, or surgical/medical treatment. An APACHE II cutoff of 24.5 and pre-ICU admission time of 2.5 days were sensitive predictors of fatal outcome.
© 2009 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.
[Original Articles]
Bumbasirevic, Vesna MD, PhD*; Radenkovic, Dejan MD, PhD*; Jankovic, Zorica MD, PhD†; Karamarkovic, Aleksandar MD, PhD*; Jovanovic, Bojan MD*; Milic, Natasa MD, PhD‡; Palibrk, Ivan MD, PhD*; Ivancevic, Nenad MD, PhD*
From the *Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia; †St James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK; and‡Institute for Medical Statistics and Informatics, Belgrade University School of Medicine, Belgrade, Serbia.
Received for publication September 8, 2007; accepted June 25, 2008.
Reprints: Zorica Jankovic, MD, PhD, St James's University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds, LS9 7TF, UK (e-mail: Zorica.Jankovic@leedsth.nhs.uk).
Pancreas - Citrus Fruit Intake and Pancreatic Cancer Risk Review
http://www.pancreasjournal.com/pt/re/pancreas/abstract.00006676-200903000-00011.htm;jsessionid=Jj3FVHKT7hbQTshv7KqCQJJNBFBFTKLpxRTLCLHc0G6VMpfNpQJ0!-1429555639!181195629!8091!-1
Citrus Fruit Intake and Pancreatic Cancer Risk: A Quantitative Systematic Review
This study was supported by the research grant from the Chuongbong Academic Research Fund of the Cheju National University in 2007.
Abstract
Objectives: The purpose of this systematic review was to investigate the association between dietary intake of citrus fruits and pancreatic cancer risk.
Methods: Authors searched electronic databases and the reference lists of publications of studies addressing diet and pancreatic cancer up to December 2007. All of the epidemiological studies that obtained individual data on dietary intake of citrus fruits and presented risk estimates of the association between intake of citrus fruits and risk of pancreatic cancer were identified and included. Using general variance-based methods, study-specific odds ratios (ORs)/relative risk and associated confidence interval (CI)/SE for highest versus lowest intake of citrus fruits level were extracted from each article.
Results: Nine articles including 4 case-control studies and 5 cohort studies proved eligible. Overall summary OR using random effect model suggested an inverse association in risk of pancreatic caner with intake of citrus fruits (summary OR, 0.83; 95% CI, 0.70-0.98) with large heterogeneity across studies (I2 = 49.9%).
Conclusions: Pooled results from observational studies showed an inverse association between intake of citrus fruits and the risk of pancreatic cancer, although results vary substantially across studies, and the apparent effect is restricted to the weaker study design (case-control studies).
© 2009 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.
[Original Articles]
Bae, Jong-Myon MD, PhD*; Lee, Eun Ja MD, PhD†; Guyatt, Gordon MD, MSc‡
From the *Department of Preventive Medicine, Cheju National University College of Medicine, Jejudo; †Department of Radiology, Myongji Hospital, Kwandong University, College of Medicine, Koyang, Korea; and ‡CLARITY Research Group, Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Health Sciences Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Received for publication April 15, 2008; accepted July 31, 2008.
Reprints: Jong-Myon Bae, MD, PhD, 1-Ara-1-dong Jeju, Jejudo, 690-756, Republic of Korea (e-mail: jmbae@cheju.ac.kr).
Citrus Fruit Intake and Pancreatic Cancer Risk: A Quantitative Systematic Review
This study was supported by the research grant from the Chuongbong Academic Research Fund of the Cheju National University in 2007.
Abstract
Objectives: The purpose of this systematic review was to investigate the association between dietary intake of citrus fruits and pancreatic cancer risk.
Methods: Authors searched electronic databases and the reference lists of publications of studies addressing diet and pancreatic cancer up to December 2007. All of the epidemiological studies that obtained individual data on dietary intake of citrus fruits and presented risk estimates of the association between intake of citrus fruits and risk of pancreatic cancer were identified and included. Using general variance-based methods, study-specific odds ratios (ORs)/relative risk and associated confidence interval (CI)/SE for highest versus lowest intake of citrus fruits level were extracted from each article.
Results: Nine articles including 4 case-control studies and 5 cohort studies proved eligible. Overall summary OR using random effect model suggested an inverse association in risk of pancreatic caner with intake of citrus fruits (summary OR, 0.83; 95% CI, 0.70-0.98) with large heterogeneity across studies (I2 = 49.9%).
Conclusions: Pooled results from observational studies showed an inverse association between intake of citrus fruits and the risk of pancreatic cancer, although results vary substantially across studies, and the apparent effect is restricted to the weaker study design (case-control studies).
© 2009 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.
[Original Articles]
Bae, Jong-Myon MD, PhD*; Lee, Eun Ja MD, PhD†; Guyatt, Gordon MD, MSc‡
From the *Department of Preventive Medicine, Cheju National University College of Medicine, Jejudo; †Department of Radiology, Myongji Hospital, Kwandong University, College of Medicine, Koyang, Korea; and ‡CLARITY Research Group, Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Health Sciences Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Received for publication April 15, 2008; accepted July 31, 2008.
Reprints: Jong-Myon Bae, MD, PhD, 1-Ara-1-dong Jeju, Jejudo, 690-756, Republic of Korea (e-mail: jmbae@cheju.ac.kr).
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